Staff Leadership

IPA has ongoing research or partnership operations in 48 countries across Africa, North and South America, and South and Southeast Asia. We have more than 300 projects completed or ongoing and over 600 staff around the world. Below is a listing of our initiative, scale-up, country, and administrative directors.

United States - New Haven Headquarters

Annie Duflo, Executive Director

Thomas Gray, Chief Financial Officer

Delia Welsh, Deputy Executive Director, Research and Policy

Nicole Licata Grant, Director of Human Resources and Global Operations

Jessica Kiessel, Director of Country Programs

Pace Phillips, Associate Director of Country Programs

Ife Osaga-Ondondo, General Counsel

John Hughes, Director of Finance

Kelly Bidwell, Initiative Director, Post Conflict Recovery and Fragile States

Anthony De Luca, Information Technology Director

Caroline Fiennes, European Outreach Affiliate

Niall Keleher, Director of Research Methods and Training

Matthew Kerner, Controller

Don Sowers, Traveling Financial Controller

Doug Parkerson, Director of Project Development

Justin Oliver, Director of Global Outreach

Aishwarya Ratan, Initiative Director, Global Financial Inclusion Initiative (Yale University)

Lauri Robbins Ericson, Director of Organizational Development 

Beniamino Savonitto, Project Director, Financial Capability Research Fund

United States - Washington, DC

Nathanael Goldberg, Policy Director

Jeremy Hand, Managing Director, Safe Water Program

Lucia Sanchez, Director, Small and Medium Enterprise Initiative

Bangladesh

Shoraez Shahjahan, Country Director

Ghana

Philip Amara, Country Director

Pace Phillips, Deputy Country Director - Accra

Carolina Corral, Deputy Country Director - Tamale

Kenya

Colin Christensen, Country Director

Carol Nekesa, Deputy Country Director

Daniele Ressler, Operations Director

Eric Kouskalis, Program Director, Dispensers for Safe Water

Karen Levy, Senior Director, Deworm the World Initiative

Tadeo Muriuki, Project Director, WASH Benefits

Malawi

(TBD), Country Director

Mali

Nicolo Tomaselli, Country Representative

Mexico

(TBD), Country Director

Mongolia

(TBD), Country Director

Morocco

Florencia Devoto, Country Director

Fatima El Kadiri, Deputy Country Director

Peru

Adam Kemmis Betty, Country Director

Philippines

Faith McCollister, Country Director

Sierra Leone

Abebual Zerihun Demilew, Country Director

South Africa

Luke Crowley, Project Director

Uganda

Jeff Alumai, Country Director

Daniele Ressler, Deputy Country Director

Trina Gorman,  Interim Deputy Country Director 

Zambia

Krista Hoff, Country Director